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known as an indefatigable sportsman and traveller, 

 having decided upon making a hunting expedition 

 to the Lake country, also arrived at Walwich Bay. 

 The pursuits of the two adventurers being in many 

 respects similar, an intimacy soon sprang up be- 

 tween them, and it was agreed upon that they 

 should make the journey together. However, Mr. 

 Green, owing to sickness and other causes, was 

 long detained on the coast, so long, indeed, that 

 M. Wahlberg found it necessary to proceed without 

 his new acquaintance ; but, travelling very leisurely, 

 my friend was eventually able to overtake him a few 

 days' journey on this side of the Lake. Here they 

 again separated. M. Wahlberg, accompanied only 

 by a few Damaras, started on a foot-expedition up 

 the Tionghe River, chiefly with a view of hunting 

 elephants. In this he was very successful ; and 

 after an absence of about five mouths, and after 

 having penetrated to Libebe (also called Debabe), 

 a place several hundred miles north of the Lake, 

 and never before visited by Europeans, lie returned 

 in safety to his encampment on the Ngami, laden 

 with the spoils of the chase. In the meantime, 

 Mr. Green, and a Mr. Wilson whom he met at the 

 Lake, had also made an excursion up the river in 

 question, chiefly performed by water. But I 

 will now let my friend tell the story in his own 

 words. In a letter (a copy of which has been 

 placed nt my disposal) addressed to the Swedish 

 Consul-General, Chevalier Letterstedt, Mr. Green 

 thus writes : 



" Upon my return from Debabu (my own jour- 



